In the gap between paper and daily urgency, much of the discredit of a system is played out today, which, even before disappearing, seems to have entered a zone of administrative and health collapse. This argument is surprising in an entity that was precisely conceived to manage health coverage for a massive universe of affiliates linked to the Armed Forces and federal forces, with a broad administrative structure and specific experience in the matter. The question that arises in many offices is as simple as it is uncomfortable: if the organization does not have the technical capacity to define benefits, what then explains its heavy bureaucratic architecture? The political background also weighs. This obligation makes the contrast with the reality described by users and providers even more severe: delayed appointments, problems with medications, delayed reimbursements and growing uncertainty about care. The reorganization planned by the official decree establishes that during the transition, continuity of coverage must be guaranteed for affiliates who have not yet been transferred, especially in cases of treatments that do not allow interruption. The Minister of Defense, Carlos Presti, appointed in February the retired major colonel Ariel Guzmán as administrator of the IOSFA transition and liquidation process, with the mission of leading the transfer of affiliates, personnel, assets and liabilities to the new structures. In this context, spending on external planning does not appear as a sign of relief but, rather, as a new cause for distrust. Thus, while the structure is heading towards its formal closure, the IOSFA assumes another controversy at a time when thousands of affiliates are not discussing abstract care models but something much more basic: whether they will be able to get a consultation, medication, or treatment on time. Under this transitional leadership, the system was supposed to focus on preserving the continuity of care and ordering the closure. In other words, the State has already resolved that the current structure must cease to exist, but even so, within that organism, a millionaire expense continues to be enabled to design the benefit scheme of a retiring institution. The data would not be so sensitive if the system's situation were stable. Even from the pharmaceutical sector, a risk of shortages due to the growing backlog of social works and health financiers was warned about in February, in a context in which the payment chain appears increasingly deteriorated. This norm also created two new entities, the Armed Forces Social Work (OSFA) and the Federal Security Forces Social Work (OSFFESEG), as part of a comprehensive reorganization of the system. However, the emergence of a contract for almost 90 million to model the catalog of benefits, essential medicines, scopes, exclusions and regional costs raises questions about the real opportunity of the expenditure and who will end up taking advantage of that work in an institutional scheme that is already being dismantled. This is added to another sensitive issue. Different journalistic and sectorial reports have been describing delays with providers, suspension of agreements, difficulties in the dispensing of medications and a debt that severely conditions daily operation. This picture makes the comparison between the urgency of the affiliates and the disbursement planned for consultation and theoretical design even harsher. Another point that deepens the objections is in the technical justification itself. According to what was transpired from the tender, the IOSFA states that it needs to resort to external specialists because it does not internally have the professional profile necessary to develop the program. The measure was embodied in DI-2026-145-APN-GG#IOSFA disposition, signed on March 2 by the general manager Sergio Maldonado, and once again puts the administrative management of a structure going through one of the most delicate stages of its history under scrutiny. The decision generates noise for an obvious reason: the Executive Branch itself had already ordered, through decree 88/2026, the initiation of the dissolution and subsequent liquidation process of the IOSFA, with a transition period of up to 365 days. But the exact opposite is happening. Buenos Aires - March 14, 2026 - Total News Agency - TNA - In the midst of a financial crisis that already drags an estimated debt of some 200,000 million pesos and while the national government formally activated its dissolution process, the Armed Forces Social Work Institute (IOSFA) authorized a private tender to hire an external consulting firm to develop a Comprehensive Benefits Program (PIP) for 86,578,259.04 pesos.
